a couple punk quotes are...

"were not trying to be different, we just are"
-lauren tazelaar

"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over a garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy"
-Billie Joe Armstrong

“Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when you're twenty.”
-ladypain Tony James